Application Aware Intelligence and Control

FortiADC application-aware appliances eliminate performance bottlenecks, reduce application deployment complexity and seamless application integration. Fully aware of Layers 4 through 7 application traffic, connections, transactions, and content, they enable IT organizations to create event-driven policies for intelligent distribution of application traffic across web and application servers, and eliminates the need to replicate content across multiple servers. Content awareness is extended to the ability to create complex rules to dynamically rewrite content on the fly using built-in tools or you can write your own custom rules with FortiADC’s scripting language.

Hardware-Based SSL and Server Offloading

FortiADC offloads server-intensive SSL processing with support for 4096-bit keys, TCP connection management, data compression and HTTP request processing from servers. This speeds up response times, reduces load on the backend servers, allowing them to serve more users.

Disaster Recovery with Global Server Load Balancing

FortiADC’s included Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) makes your network reliable and available by scaling applications across multiple data centers for disaster recovery or to improve application response times. Administrators can set up rules that direct traffic based on site availability, data center performance and network latency.

Link Load Balancing

Built-in Link Load Balancing (LLB) gives you the option to connect your FortiADC to two or more WAN links to reduce the risk of outages or to add additional bandwidth to relieve traffic congestion. FortiADC supports inbound and outbound Link Load Balancing to manage traffic leaving or entering the device. Using policy routing, FortiADC can support complex NAT and routing requirements to address almost any network LLB architecture. With Tunnel Routing you get high-speed, reliable site-to-site connectivity without the need to lease expensive WAN links. It aggregates multiple links to create a virtual tunnel to a remote data center that ensures availability especially for applications that are time sensitive and require large single-session bandwidth such as video conferencing.

Virtual Domains (VDOMs)

Managed service provider and enterprise data center administrators can divide a FortiADC into two or more virtual FortiADC devices, each operating as an independent application delivery controller. Each VDOM can provide completely separate ADC services, such as server load balancing, SSL offloading, and traffic routing policies. A multi-VDOM FortiADC can be centrally managed or can be assigned to a VDOM administrator to manage their own virtual ADC.

Enhanced Protection with WAF and IP Reputation Services

Web applications can be an easy target for hackers. FortiADC offers you multiple levels of protection to defend against attacks that target your applications. In addition to its stateful firewall feature, built in to every FortiADC D-series is a Web Application Firewall that can detect known threats using FortiGuard WAF Security Services for layer 7 attack signatures (subscription required) and checks that requests haven’t been tampered with using its HTTP RFC compliance constraints. FortiADC also supports our FortiGuard IP Reputation service (subscription required) that protects you from sources associated with DoS/ DDoS attacks, phishing schemes, spammers, malicious software and botnets.

Scripting to Extend Built-in Features

FortiADC’s Lua-based scripting language gives you the flexibility to create custom, event-driven rules using predefined commands, variables and operators. Using easy-to-create scripts, you get the flexibility you need to extend your FortiADC with specialized business rules that give you almost unlimited possibilities for server load balancing and content rewriting to meet the needs of your organization.>

Features:

Application Availability

Intelligent and easy to configure Layer 4/7 policy and group management

Virtual service definition with inherited persistence, load
balancing method and pool members